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Season IX of the FTR Gauntlet is set to start May 30th at 3:00pm ET! Games are held every other Sunday and Saturday at 3:00pm ET and every Wednesday at 10:00pm ET. This league has been running since 2004 and with each new season, it's been getting better and more popular! The FTR Gauntlet is a series of $11 buy-in private tournaments hosted at PokerStars. It's free to join the league. All you need is to be a registered FTR Poker Forum member with a PokerStars account and then register for the league here: http://www.flopturnriver.com/poker-league/register.php This season of the Gauntlet is different from past seasons, with a total of 25 games, and the ability to play in as many as you like. So instead of limiting and picking and choosing your tournaments, you can play them all if you have the time! There will be a split between games - 9 NLH, 9 NLH 6-MAX, 3 PLO, 3 PLO8, and 1 NLH HU. Also, new this year is the FTR Gauntlet Main Event - a $55 buy-in event with 5,000 starting chips! Play well and run good and you'll work your way up the leaderboard. At the end of the season, 3rd Place wins free FTR gear and $75, 2nd Place receives FTR gear and $150, but everyone is shooting for 1st Place which gets the FTR gear and $300, plus the beautiful and coveted FTR Gauntlet crystal trophy! That's not all. During select Gauntlet games, there will be surprise bonus or bounty prizes announced, so make sure you show up for all 25 games! To see a complete schedule of events, the current leaderboard, and statistics of past seasons, visit the Gauntlet home page here: http://www.flopturnriver.com/poker-league/ After the season, the top 10 players from Season VIII and each of the past seasons are eligible to play in the FyrFytr Tournament Of Champions (TOC) invitational tourney. This is the post-season match of all-stars and it's a thrill just to watch, but even better when you qualify to play. So always bring your best game to all 25 events! For complete details about the FTR Gauntlet leaderboard ranking, rules, registration and the TOC, visit the FTR Gauntlet forum by clicking here. (http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/ftr-gauntlet-online-poker-league/)
The FTR forum is approaching the milestone of 1,000,000 posts! We're excited about it and hope you are too! As reported on the morning of May 26th we were at 990,510 posts. It's clear FTR forum members enjoy their experience here. The FTR forum offers advice on poker strategy, a community of players to help critique and better your game, announcements for exclusive tournaments and special poker promotions, people to joke around with, and much more. Be sure to check out all the FTR poker forum has to offer you!
Speaking of all that the FTR forum has to offer, FlopTurnRiver is proud to announce that a new Online Gambling section has been added to the forum. News, announcements, events, and special promotions that are non-poker related can be found here. Don't hesitate to check it out, as you never know what special casino promo or sports betting deal you will find! Poker Talk Forum Fanatic | SNG Scenario 
ed cooper gets some feedback about an AK suited with flopped top pair hand in our Sit-n-Go Tourney Tactics forum.PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 6.5 Tournament, 10/20 Blinds (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com CO (t1500) Button (t1490) SB (t1480) Hero (BB) (t1850) UTG (t1420) UTG+1 (t1500) MP1 (t1500) MP2 (t1500) MP3 (t1260) Hero's M: 61.67 Preflop: Hero is BB with KdAd, 2 folds, MP1 calls t20, MP2 calls t20, 4 folds, Hero bets t100, MP1 calls t80, MP2 calls t80 Flop: (t310) 8sAh6c (3 players) Hero bets t200, 1 fold, MP2 calls t200 Turn: (t710) 4s (2 players) Hero bets t400, MP2 calls t400 River: (t1510) As (2 players) hero???? if i plan to check call, am i calling for my stack or only a fraction of it? how much? think i had about 1100 left. taipan168: You built the pot very nicely for a river shove, so shove away. I don't give much credit for the runner runner flush, not many players are that bad as to chase a backdoor draw against big flop and turn bets from you. DanAronG: I'm not sure I agree. What hands could villain possibly have that you beat? His range could be something like AQ, sets, made straights or missed straight draws. Maybe the odd Axs that hit 2 pair. Is AJ really calling all the way? I' not included AA, KK, QQ or Ak due to the original preflop limp. Is JJ coming all this way? AJ? So I'd check the river, cos I don't see any value in betting, and I can only see a call making sense if you think villain bluffs missed draws or majorly over values AJ/JJ (in tha case of the latter perhaps there is value in betting). Extremophile: I'd shove the turn. ed cooper: i shoved the river, and lost the hand. after i was a bit angry with myself, because i thought id been a tad zealous in my shove, for the reasons that Dan said. the only way id have saved myself here wouldve been to give it up on the river. but, if hed raised me on either the flop or turn then i guess id have been stacking anyway. so im lost as to what to think. DanAronG: Put your opponent on a range, then discount hands based on his play each round. Then see what hands are left in his range and act accordingly. Click here to read more from this topic in our Poker Forum. Poker News | WSOP 2010 with UB 
As you know, the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is almost ready to go in Vegas, and many online players will be looking to satellite into events. I am going to start a 3 part series of articles that will help American players figure out where to earn their seats to the WSOP Main Event (ME). You’ll have plenty of opportunities between UB, Full Tilt, and PokerStars, and the best site for you might not be the best site for someone else because each site offers different satellites and different ME bonuses. Today I will go over the UB satellites and incentives.Players interested in playing in the ME are able to get a special bonus if they can win their way into the tournament via satellites. You’ll be glad to hear that you won’t be needing a UB referral code for this bonus, however. If you can win your way into the Main Event by playing Sit N’ Go’s (SnGs) or multi-table satellites, you will receive cash for being on Team UB. Click here to read more of this news. Poker Article | Breaking Down the Non-Hold'em Games Part 1 
By Spenda
As the No-Limit Texas Hold'em games continue to get harder post-UIGEA it is only natural for players to branch out into other forms of poker looking for softer tables. In the past, online poker sites just offered Hold'em and Omaha; however, there are now a wide variety of games offered at most major sites including Stud (including razz and 8b), Omaha Hi/Lo, Draw (2-7, 5-card draw, Badugi), and mixed games such as PokerStars' 8-game and FullTilt's 7-game. The most well known mixed game is HORSE due to the air time it gained on ESPN during the $50k HORSE championship. All of these games have their own set of rules that are quite different from one another. The same can be said for basic strategy. It is imperative to understand the rules and general tactics before entering these games. It might seem simple, but at the smaller stakes you will see a lot of players making mistakes due to not understanding the rules of the game they are playing. The most popular non-Hold'em game is Pot-Limit Omaha. Practically every poker site runs a large variety of stakes generally starting as low as $2 buy-in PLO. Pot-Limit Omaha Rules The major different between Pot-Limit Omaha and Texas Hold'em is quite obvious from the moment you take your seat. Instead of being dealt two hole cards, each player at the table will receive four cards. The biggest mistake players make is when it comes to using these cards. You can only use up to two cards in your hand and up to three cards on the board when creating a five-card poker hand. Everyone who has played a significant amount of PLO has undoubtedly run into a player who thought they had the nut flush with just one card in their hand and four on the board. The same can be said for players who thought they had a full house with three of a kind on the board, and one of their hole cards pairing another board cards. Let's look at some common hand mistakes. Click here to read more from this article. Or click here to submit your own thoughts on a poker topic and you may get published in our Poker Articles library! Poker Dictionary | Aggrodonk 
A bad player who is very aggressive, betting and raising the majority of the time.
Example: That guy was such an aggrodonk, I just sat back and waited for a big hand and then busted him. Click here to browse our Poker Dictionary or to add your own poker phrase or term. Exclusive Monthly Events All of our regular monthly private tournaments are listed below. Direct Sign-Up Events are restricted to players who sign up to the poker room via FlopTurnRiver.com. All other Money-Added Tournaments and Freerolls are open to all registered FTR Poker Forum members. 
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